If Schulberg\’s literary debut led to his temporary estrangement from Hollywood, where he had grown up as the son of Paramount executive B.P. Schulberg, it did not affect his association with the fight game.
The film, \”Alpha Dog,\” based on the 2000 kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old West Hills resident Nick Markowitz, has received mixed reviews but growing notoriety.
Alex Baum, who will be celebrating his 84th birthday on Dec. 30, fought in the French Resistance, survived two and a half years in the concentration camps, and has since dedicated his life to performing good deeds, most notably in his advocacy of amateur athletics.
The Chanukah show has been a staple in Los Angeles, which, before its first airing in 1978, had been missing this classic blend of Yiddishkeit: folk music, readings of Isaac Bashevis Singer\’s stories, memorials to Holocaust victims, Second Avenue \”hit parade\” songs.
When asked whether he is Jewish, Mark Troy responds, \”You will be needing proof of that?\”
\”We want to give the women of Los Angeles a voice,\” said Levine, pointing out that every world song in their repertoire \”has a population right here\” in Los Angeles. She added that world music is \”the music of the people.\”
The Skirball Cultural Center has chosen to focus on Italian Jewry as the theme for its upcoming \”Hanukkah Family Festival,\” a series of performances, workshops, exhibits and other activities on Sunday, Dec. 10.
\”I don\’t think it\’s possible to write a really interesting or good book without the Holocaust being in it. Even if you\’re not Jewish, you\’re a Jewish writer. If it doesn\’t enter your consciousness, you\’re not a serious artist.\” So said novelist Leslie Epstein, author most recently of \”The Eighth Wonder of the World\” in a phone interview from his office at Boston University, where he chairs the creative writing department.
They climb a rope upside down. They scale a pole 15 feet high. They leap through an obstacle course.It\’s not boot camp at Camp Pendleton. It\’s the Moscow Cats Theater, whose lead performers, 30 or so felines, are not deprived of sleep and not subjected to verbal abuse like Marines in basic training.
Arabian rugs and pillows are spread out in a tent as Holofernes, the general of the Assyrians, plots his victory over the Israelites. Wearing a tunic, he speaks lines of great beauty: \”I am overcome with wonder, trembling with a terrible infatuation.\” He is speaking of war, yet he might be anticipating the woman who will take him to bed later in the evening.That woman, the eponymous star of \”Judith: A Parting From the Body,\” resuming its run at the Theater of NOTE on Nov. 30, is the Jewish heroine known to readers of the Apocrypha.
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